The constant social, economic and technological changes that affect Europe impact people’s career prospects, including that of youth workers, in the sense that they have to keep developing new skills, such as literacy, entrepreneurship and intercultural skills. Considering the urgency to have trained professionals with the key competencies to intervene towards social inclusion and non-discrimination, it’s essential to create strategies to enable and empower youth workers so that they can adequately deal with these challenges and promote positive impact with young people, especially migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. 

The Protocol for Certification of Competencies is based on the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) 1 , the EU tool that is strongly linked to and translates different national qualifications frameworks into a common one. It allows greater transparency and makes it easier for professionals to compare qualifications between the different countries. The EQF foresees and describes all levels of proficiency, while making it clearer for people that use the framework what they know and are able to do.